[Pacemaker] IPaddr2 cloned address doesn't survive node standby

Andreas Ntaflos daff at pseudoterminal.org
Fri May 17 15:25:32 EDT 2013


In a two-node cluster I am trying to use a cloned IP address with a 
cloned Bind 9 instance, in an active-active way. Why? Because simple IP 
failover does not work well with Bind, as it only answers queries on the 
addresses that are bound to the NIC when starting up (I know about 
Bind's "interface-interval" setting, but the minimum of one minute is 
far too long). Using Ubuntu 12.04.2, Corosync 1.4.2 and Pacemaker 1.1.6.

So my configuration sees to it that the cloned address is set on both 
nodes and Bind is started afterwards (op params omitted for readability):

node dns01
node dns02
primitive p_bind9 lsb:bind9
primitive p_ip_service_ns ocf:heartbeat:IPaddr2 \
   params ip="192.168.114.17" cidr_netmask="24" nic="eth0" \
     clusterip_hash="sourceip-sourceport"
clone cl_bind9 p_bind9 \
   meta interleave="false"
clone cl_ip_service_ns p_ip_service_ns \
   meta globally-unique="true" clone-max="2" \
     clone-node-max="2" interleave="true"
order o_ip_before_bind9 inf: cl_ip_service_ns cl_bind9

(suggestions to improve or correct this configuration gladly accepted)

After Corosync starts up the first time everything seems correct, I can 
see the cluster/cloned/service IP address and the CLUSTERIP iptables 
rules on both nodes.

But after putting dns01 in standby and then bringing it online again the 
cloned address is no longer present on dns01, only on dns02. iptables 
rules are also gone from dns01.

Then, putting dns02 into standby the IP address is moved to dns01, and 
after going online again no longer present on dns01 (neither are 
iptables rules).

So the IP address is moved between the nodes, each move accompanied by a 
restart of the Bind service (cl_bind9/p_bind9).

All of this doesn't seem right to me. Shouldn't the cloned IP address 
always be present on *both* nodes when they are online?

Andreas

PS: In the end this configuration works since the Bind 9 service is 
always available to answer queries on the cluster address (as long as 
there is one node online) but it seems that the Bind 9 clones are 
restarted too often and too liberally when things change. This, however, 
may be a separate issue, possibly related to the order directive and the 
interleave meta params.




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